Victory Agho's post on Goodwall - Abiku o Abiku!, a wanderer child, the same child who dies and returns again and again to plague the mother, a mother's nightmare. Abiku is a Yoruba name which means "predestined to death". Abiku is believed to be a curse to families. The modern twist of this myth is that what if Abiku was not a curse after all?, but rather the deaths was a result of illnesses, poverty and ignorance. These are evident through various ailments like sickle cell anemia, polio, genetic disorders e.t.c. #ModernMyths